Tor-2, Leach, 2601 Route 14 [Geneva-Watkins Rd.] [Yat-4]

Documentation

Building date: 1836

Original use:

Corner structures:

Mortar application and content: Vertical, no embellishment

Types and uses of stones: Herringbone anywhere

Types and choice of windows:

Structures with similar masonry details:

Masons who worked on building: George R. Young

Unique features:

Map Location

Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°38'18.80"N 77°56'36.75"W. Current owner of record, Leach as of the 2019 Tax Roll.

Town of Torrey and Yates County Maps.

Comments, Additional Information, References

The five-bay, 10-room Leach House at 2601 Route 14,Town of Torrey, was built in 1836. It is on a 100-acre farm. The entire second floor was originally a ballroom built for the owner's seven daughters in which to entertain their beaus. Three side walls are rough field cobblestones laid in herringbone pattern. George R. Young was the mason. The house was in the Leach family for six generations. It was placed on the National Register in 1992. Richard Palmer blog.

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"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the second paragraph on page 23.

"Historic Yates Area Homes", Geneva Daily Times, Monday, February 2, 1955.

"Permanent File of Cobblestone Structures".

"Gateways To Cobblestone Houses of Yates County", by Crooked Lake Yorkers, Penn Yan Academy, page 9, 1967.

"A Brief History of Cobblestone Architecture in Yates County, New York", By Richard F. Palmer

The Cobblestone Society & Museum Tours:

Leach House 8th Annual 06/15/1968

National Register of Historic Places Registration This property is listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Asset Detail National Register of Historic Places 5/11/1992. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form when available provides quite detailed information about the cobblestone structure. Young-Leach Cobblestone Farmhouse and Barn Complex Wikipedia article.

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"Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Leach House

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Photographs

Tor-2 Leach 2.jpg ¹ Charles Hopkins 1934	Tor-2 Leach 3.jpg ¹	GP Yates Torrey Tor-2 1-1 P.jpg ² 8/22/1971	GP Yates Torrey Tor-2 2-1 P.jpg ² 8/22/1971
GP Yates Torrey Tor-2 3-1 P.jpg ² 8/22/1971	Yat_4_1.jpg	Yat_4_2.jpg	Yat_4_3.jpg
Yat_4_4.jpg	Yat_4_5.jpg	Yat_4_6.jpg	Yat_4_7.jpg
YoungLeachTorrey.jpg ³ 1995	Tor-2 2601 Route 14 1.jpg ³	Tor-2 2601 Route 14 2.jpg 4	Tor-2 2601 Route 14 3.jpg 4
Leach 3.jpg 5	Leach 1.jpg 5	Leach 2.jpg 5

¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Image courtesy Yates County History Center collection.
⁴ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
⁵ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.